ID: IRCNE2011071201
Date: 2011-07-31
According to "itpro",Mozilla is working on its own mobile operating system to go up against the likes of Apple and Google.
Mozilla will watch over the so-called Boot to Gecko (B2G) project, which will see a community of developers working on the mobile OS, with the source code to be released in real-time.
Gecko is the name for the rendering engine used in Firefox.
“We propose a project we’re calling Boot to Gecko (B2G) to pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web,” the company said in a website post.
The firm admitted there is plenty of work to do, including the creation of APIs to work with all kinds of devices and operating systems.
“This project is in its infancy; some pieces of it are only captured in our heads today, others aren’t fully explored,” the company said.
In particular, people have noted the insecurities of an open system when compared to a proprietary model.
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